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ancient civlizations
Mesopotamia
Location an example is mesopotamia is between two rivers "its in the borders of modern irac" the soil around the rivers was more fertile [Steele 6]
religon the sumerians worship hundreds of gods and godees. the god of water and wisdom was the farther of the other gods. the sumerians also believed in ghost sprites and demons [steele14]
goverment the sumerians called the the city state rules governors or the king. all laws and messages were wrigtin on soft clay and let dry so the letters and engraved. sumerians kings claimed to rule by the will of the gods there four they had to perform reliosios dutys [steele10]
Art: In Mesopotamia they used what is called a potter's wheel. I know this because in the text it said "Some time before 3500 BCE, they invented the potter's wheel, which made pottery production far more efficient." [steele24]
Writing: is made with clay tables that they used sticks to engrave the letters in the clay and then let it harden. the sumerians made the first ever writing system. the mesopotamians stared using it and called it cuneiform
[Steele12]
Architecture: A lasting symboled of Ancient Mesopotamia a massive trenched platform made of bricks it represented a mountain stretching to the heavens 5000 bce but the grate age of ziggurat building began in reign of Ur-Nammu [Steele 24]
Ancient eyjept
Location fan example is the book says the eygipenis lived on a strip of land next to the Nile river for if it flooded to make the land fertile in the book it states the farmers went to work soweing barely and elmer weather eyejipsins had to live in the more then ninedy present was desert
[Hart]
goverment the pharaohs wanted to be buried by the valley of the kings away from the the flooding plains by the Nile. The tombs usually had a deep corridor known as the way of the sun god. they were usually buried with all there stuff like gold couches and jewelry. [Hart 22]
Art an example is the gold could be molded in to different shapes the jewelers were able to get many different stones in the desert trade routes brought rare gems to the region like lapis lazuli [Hart 56]
Religion: The author said in the story "the Egyptians believed in hundreds of gods and goddesses." Many of the gods are represented by animals. A baboon might stand for Thoth, god of Wisdom, at one temple and a moon god named Khonsu.
[Hart 24]
Architecture: in the text it said the first pyramids were built as a burial place the king wanted to be closer to the sun god in the sky Khufu built the great pyramid of Giza in the year 2589 bce [Hart 20]
writing: On page 34 it says scribes had to be experts at writing hieroglyphs. The fast version of hieroglyphs is always written left to right. They had to know how to wright greek [Hart 34]
ancient china
goverment
Government: On page 16 it said The Qin soldiers defeated the last of their enemies and united the warring states under one leader zheng this says that there could be some conflict because people might think that he did not kill all of them if he was a peasant zheng knew this so to show his power over the other kings he had killed (Cotterell 16)
trade
page 58 said that Chinese merchants gather large fortunes by sending luxury goods such as silk spices teas This basically means that Chineses merchants get a lot of money (Cotterell 58)
writhing on page 11 it says that
'the shang king used orcal bones to consualt the ancestral sprits'' orcal bone bones are used for religos propuses and awncerd qustions after being burnt the awncers were in sribed in the on the ox bone or tortis shell (cotteral 11)
location
page 38 said china is dominated by two rivers The two rivers are the yellow and yangtzi river The yellow and yangzi rivers were linked by a canal (Cotterell 38)
location
page 38 said china is dominated by two rivers The two rivers are the yellow and yangtzi river The yellow and yangzi rivers were linked by a canal (Cotterell 38)
technology
tradishanal chinas medicine was based off of herbs acupuncture and balanced diets (cottearl 28)
religon
(cottearl 26)
china's religious beliefs were divided into the three ways few people were persecuted for there religous beliefs
